White Southerners fought against the one-drop rule until the 20th century because it might tarnish old-wealth Southern gentry. They eventually accepted and incorporated it into the Jim Crow system of state-sponsored anti-Black terrorism.
This law was then followed in hundreds of court cases without exception until U.S. slavery was ended by the 13th Amendment. The only identifiable U.S. group that consistently advocated the one-drop rule long before it was embraced nationwide, was the African-American ethnic community, first in the northeast, then in the south after Reconstruction.
During slavery days, racial membership was the opposite of the one-drop rule. A person of any visible European ancestry was presumed to be free. The court cases Gobu v. Gobu, 1802 North Carolina, Hudgins v. Wrights, 1806 Virginia, and Adelle v. Beauregard, 1810 Louisiana established the U.S. caselaw that if you had any discernible European ancestry you were presumed free, and the burden was on the alleged slave owner to prove that you were legally a slave through matrilineal descent.
In fact, the one-drop rule (that you are Black if you have any Black ancestor, no matter how distant) was a Jim Crow era phenomenon. It was first made law in 1910 Tennessee and spread nationwide over the next two decades.
Race had NOTHING to do with slavery. It was based on matrilineal lineage. If your mother was a slave then you were a slave. The one drop rule did not come about until 1930. So one drop rule has NOTHING to do with slavery either.
You know what I think? I think some black women are filled with self hate. And they WANT you to be able to identify with them because they can't choose.
Tiff, don't cry. The people out there will never know what it is like to be both. You are a good person, you are BEAUTIFUL. I love you I give you hugs.
Before I forget I wasn't really sorry for offending anybody. Llike I give two fucks what you clowns think I just said that so I don't get idiost writting back to me who propbably never seen the sun.
Let me put it this way, to end people writting to me. I don't give a fuck about what "biracial dummie here" has to say anymore. Have a good life. Just don't tell people your black when it suits you and remember to say hello to your mum for me.
I am sorry if I offended anybody else but I can't believe there are still racist people like this who just pretend. This video upset me a bit because black and and white people have gone through alot of crap to even have the right to get married and then you have pretentious idiots like this who really hate being black
The reason I'm so angry is because I am in an relationship with someone white and I do not want I piece of dirt like her as my child. I would love my child to identify with both races but to discriminate agaist black people when your ass is even half black is distrurbing and sad . Did a black man rape you or something? There seems to be no reason for why this this loser is constantly talking about blacks in a bad way in all her videos.
I hate bitches like you. You give biracial and black people a bad name. I will always love biracial people but I don't like YOU because you are nothing but a stupid little girl dreaming in La La Land thinknig that somehow that white people like you. They are making fun of you. Even I am laughing my skull off because your deaf and dumb. You finally blocked everbody that doesn't agree with you. You try to be racist so that you can suck up to them but they don't like you DUM DUM!
To pretend your just black won't do it but to pretend your just white will. Let's put this in a nutshell, you are a racist! I kind of wish your mum never opened her legs to produce a demon like you.You are just disgracing your mother. Who is your dad anyway? Unless he created mankind then maybe your right for shoving yout head so far up a white mans ass but until I find out he is god you and your daddy can FUCK OFF and you can stop making your plea to the white race videos.
@MsOla2011 ....And you wonder why we don't embrace being like you! lol :) ...Every black/white biracial person wasn't raised in the African American community. You don't have to like her, but if you tried to actually listen to what she's saying then maybe you could try to be understanding, but you refuse to see what she's saying because all you know is that you're black and that's it. Walk in her shoes & then you can criticize..But you can't....You're "Just Black" remember?!
@exotiq88 what are you taking about you dummie. It's not about embracing being like me it's embracing who she is. She is half black and half white, that means she is also half black (just for those who are a bit slow). She doesn't have to be raised in the black community to be treat people of all cultures with resepect but she is a racist . I bet you any money if she had a magic wand to make herself white she would.
@MsOla2011 She is saying that white people are also victims of poverty and injustice but are brain washed into thinking because they are white it doesn't apply to them.
OMG! Everything you said is how I feel exactly! This is why I stay affirmed to being and remaining in the middle--I'm mixed--I'm not exclusively black nor white and I refuse to be bullied into choosing a side just to satisfy another's agenda. I am who I am--People need to accept it! Actually, the only people that ever gave me grief over it were blacks for some reason, most whites & other non-whites have the common sense to accept that fact and move on.
my white side is just as equal as my black side because i am 50/50. so explain to me how i have to be black. i can just easily say i'm white using that rule. so don't tell me i am black. i'm mixed and proud of it. us mixed people are our own, not one or the other so society can not "put us in our place" and tell us who we are.
i think this is the video that hits the your core purpose and motivations for this series...theres more to be said but thats pretty much the long and short of it
this is so stupid. if you're biracial and if this is an issue for you then you are NOT black - period! what does it mean to be both black and white, do you follow yourself when you're in the clothing store. bottomline, if you don't want to be apart of the black community it's ok. you are what you are.
Btw, I know the "Amen" song. Learned it years ago, but just b/c someone else doesn't know it means they aren't being black, or black enough. That is plain nonsense.
For years, I called myself black only, although I am mixed with indian, irish, and dominican as well. I look like Nicole Richie, mixed with Lisa Bonet.
Now that I am older, I embrace every ethnicity I am mixed with, proudly. All of them make up who I am. I don't eliminate any, or put just one on a pedastal.
I just recently discovered that I have more white and Indian in me than black, thus making me a mulatto,
For the most part I am not light skinned, I look black.
I often get teased while going into my senior year in high school that I don't act or talk black and that I act stuck up, I'm really troubled and confused on what a black person should act like.
On tests I mark I am African American because visibly I look it but mentally and socially(according to people of all race I am not.
@yana71310 Mulatto is a term designated to those who are Black/White mixed and have one parent of each race. I identify as multi-ethnic (AA, English, French, Irish), even though my background is 50/50 Black & White, technically I am not bi-racial or mulatto.
Black/ White who cares.......inner beauty is what matters. I say this because we all know that there is inner beauty and ugliness in every race. Stereotypes can cause us pain no matter what race you are. To clump individuals into a category based on looks is just ignorant. Understanding this ignorance can set us all free. BTW, I’m as black as they come. What the heck are troops?
Ive never woke up and thought about it a day n my life. My parents are both black. Theyve never thought about it a day in their life. neyways point is this. I watched this WHOLE post hoping u'd share what "Amen" was&shed light on this "troop" thing..cause im black &dont have a clue as to what you're talking about.that is aside from F*cked up sterotypes ppl will try&put on u. mixed or not ppl want blacks u to make them feel comfortable with your skinton ...lol now thats something I can relate to
There was a poll done while OBAMA was running for office and it stated that the #1 reason WHITE americans aged 18-25 voted for OBAMA was b/c....HE WAS BLACK..they wanted the progress and change just as much as blacks....plz..get over yourself
WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING IN!!!??? You are feeding right into all of what society subjects us ( mulattoes ) to. You are a grown women now, you don't have to define what you are anymore, I understand why 100% black people get upset with you. It's okay to be simply...TIFFANY. You are behind times, black and white kids today feel as if they have equal opportunities, they dont see race like your generation did.
Most "black" Americans (about 60%) are mixed with white and/or Native American and on the same note, many "white" Americans (as many as 30%) are mixed with black and/or Native American, so in actuality there are more multiracial Americans out there than most of us are led to believe. Besides, the "one drop rule" crap is entirely outdated anyway. People in the 1800's might have taken it to heart, but times have greatly changed since then.
Omg you are TOO damn dramatic. Calm the fuck down and just be biracial. I'm black and I have had the same damn problems with people saying I "talk white" or "how have you not seen this movie and your black?" My friend says shit like black people don't do this and black people don't say this whenever i don't conform to what HE thinks is black. Be happy to be half Afro & Euro.
p.s. If one of your parents is African American you probably have more white ancestry.
@GGLebo23 There is NOWHERE on the planet where anyone one whom looks like they have some black ancestry in them functions as a non-white person non black person fro the perspective of people classified as white. Some confused non-white people like yourself may consider them as something other than non-white black people, but white people do not anywhere on the planet consider any person with black ancestry as a non-white non-black person.
@MrPeaceandhealth How many countries have you been to? Do you study how people look at race in other countries besides America? The one-drop rule is an American invention. Whites & Asians don't consider their mixes to be apart of their race. Arabs & Pacific Islanders wouldn't consider their mix to be apart of their race. Their is nothing special about us black folks. This girl DOES NOT LOOK BLACK. She looks mixed. Who even gives a fuck what whites think? Why do we bend to their racial system?
Racism is a construct of white supremacists racist, for the purpose of mistreating persons based on race, evidence shows this, racists have created the labels you are 'stressing' over, and rather than focus on the dynamic that rewards the problem, you argue about the problem as if you are oblvious that it is your fathers contribution and your inheritance. I personally could care less what you call your self, in truth you are a pathetic monstrosity, unconsious it seems victim or white supremacy
There is no where you can go on the planet Tiffany, where you will not be considered a non-white person by the white collective from a political function. It sucks that there is a global system of white supremacy, but there is one. In other words, to most whites you are just black.
@GGLebo23 No offense but you are confused about reality. A mixed race person in Cuba, Jamaica, and the UK *functions* in that those sociteties as a non-white person. In other words, they white people do not treat them as if they are white. SO yes, although on paper different countries may have different terms for bi-racial or mixed race people, they still function as non-white black people.
@MrPeaceandhealth So if someone treats you as a NIGGER(blk), than you should call yourself a NIGGER(blk). Is that what you think you are? A nigger? Fuck what they think. Non-white does NOT equal black. I don't know how what you think of yourself, but myself worth is not based on some racist white fucks. She wont be treated as white bc she is not white. She is not blk either, so stop trying to claim her w/ your INFERIORITY complex.
But with regard to what team you play on whether you like it or not, from a political perspective you play on the non-white team. This is not because blacks decided it. At present, only the white collective has the power to decide and that is what they have decided.
I do not mean to be gruff, but honestly you have work towards getting over it. People will always find fault with some aspect of how a person is no matter how a person (not even counting race), but you need to grow and get over it and be you and happy with how you are in terms of your speech patterns, cultural habits etc. Where you ever taught sticks and stones.
2 And btw, there is nothing wrong with a black person whom “acts more like what many would say white people, or a white person whom acts more like what many people would say is most black people” You act naturally like what you are brought up around.
Tiffany you are mixing up culture and the social construct of what team you play on based on the color of your skin. And while they can overlap, they are not the same thing. Tiffany, you are not special or rare or out of the ordinary in the USA because you have many so-called white cultural habits. Big deal. One does not have to be bi-racial for that to be the case. Blacks come in all different types of cultural, economic, and speech patterns. Why stereotype black people.
The racist 'One-Drop Rule' (ODR) was created by White Supremacists & it falsely claims the Black blood found in a Mixed-Race person's full lineage is tainted, inferior; &, thus, destroys all the other bloodlines found in the person's lineage &, thus, then makes the person full-Black IMO, a non-Racist should not support a false theory (like the ODR) which falsely claims that Black blood is 'inferior' BTW, the odious ODR was made ILLEGAL in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 'Loving' case
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Hey, tiff! I heard something on more than one occasion you mentioned here in this vid: you said you didn't know what "troops" are. Well, neither do I and all of my reference points are in the black community. I don't feel bad at all about it. Although I do know how AMEN goes(I sang in church a lot as a kid and a young adult) I am not necessarily an avid sports fan. And as a result, I get rebbed about it by white and black(in the worst way sometimes) people (mostly men) just the same.
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@slimdudeDJC BTW, I know I'm really late with this response but I just had to say something. Much love to ya for having the cojones to speak on such subjects. Love and Peace! ;0) P.S. .Dont live your life according to some clown's definition aka one drop rule. That you could drop in the big white bowl next to the other crap! :D
BTW Tiff, who is "Wise Nubian?" I did check out Tim Wise's vid and it was interesting, even realizing some of the things in the vid I was familiar with. I've tried to keep up with the "diaries' " interviews. I've seen many but not all. Those I've seen were nice! Many of the women you talked to were really informed and educated on this subject, whether from the classroom or from experience. Look forward to seeing more. Cheerz, lovely!!!
I really would love to hear something musical from you. I get a glimpse of your ability at 9:23 and now I have to hear something, anything. . . .and you don't have to do AMEN, either. You could do BABY, BABY if you want to. . or the female part to Next Time I Fall In Love (love that tune-Amy pairs with Peter Citera). Or anything your heart desires!♥ Pleeeeeazzzzzz??!! ;)
hey tiffany, true beauty comes from within, regardless of race or nationality. white, black, yellow, red, green.....who cares. You are a beautiful woman, and you definately got it going on. koko.
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I agree, but they often times go hand in hand. A white person in America usually does not have the same experiences as a Black person due to parenting, or community, or the impact of racism or institutional policies...Experience and race do impact culture.
pain sadness pverty an injustice all makes us stronger bye overcomig that hardship thats what makes us as humas better we learn from it an grow if we never had that we wouldnt get nowere wed be naive its not whether your balack or white or wher u come from but its what u do i life bad or good your still going to effect others an like i siad what doesnt kill us whil only make us stronger
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blacks in this country use that term black because they do not know that they are the israelities in the bible. they do not know their true nationality according to the bible.
I think it is not important to fit into any category. Just be Tiffany. It is ok to recognize racial differences, so long as no one is hating the other for them. Don't let anyone put you in a box, and never try to fit in one yourself.
If someone tried to rip your identity away from you, what is their approval worth anyway? Nothing. They are just jelous people trying to bring a pretty girl down because she has pretty Mocha skin.
get off on that corny topic. stop being hypocrites. no one owes you nothing.
african kings sold their own ppl to slavery.
the euro keeps that in the dl for power.
as for yourself calling yourself blk is uneducated and for me calling myself latino is uneducated. i'm putting my afircan and taino (indian) sides down.
that why i like the term "puerto rican"
and for the natives from pr "Boriqua"
is what the native "taino" indian named puerto rico. then the slavery came tainos and africans
what makes one black is the color of your skin, your thought process, your bone features, and your body. you cant think as a person and a monkey at the same time. haha your not wanted anywhere!!! we dont what you and niggers dont what you!!!!!!
if you look at the original constitution, nonwhites were only 3/5th a citizen. negros were not people back then. put the constitution in its time period. its not white!!! its ZOG controlled media and industry!!! if you were a millionare, would you give up your millions to some crack niggers? the blackies now are contolling with the jews. you get minority scholorships, a free pass from hate crimes, and free speech when we dont!
I think you assume your reference points have to do with being biracial, but it's really about culture. I grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood and lord knows i don't know the words to Amen either. I think to a certain extent, you're overthinking this.
*sigh* Girl, you and I BOTH would've been deer in headlights on the "How Can You Be Black and Not Know The Amen Song?!"...and i'm black.lol and I didn't know what troops were til I read a comment on here explaining what it is...lol...Love you girl and know that YOU are the only one who can identify as whatever YOU want!! and by the way if you were to ever come around my fam bamthen you would fit right on in, we don't care about skin color b/c we range from every shade of black/brown there is!!:)
I feel for you, but beeing bicultural myself (White-Arabian) and beeing born in one remote village in prolly the whitest country in the World (Switzerland), I am quite amazed to see how Americans are caring so much about their genetical heritage. I have never had so much problems with it. I think that US are maybe too "racially aware", or I prolly missed something...
being white doesn't mean much more than looking white. you can be any religion, talk any way. If you look white, you are white even if you listen to hip hop and reggae, and have locs. Tiffany, You don't have to pretend to be black. In the US context you look black so therefore you are black. It's not about language, looks, music, accent, culture... it's just about how you look and therefore are perceived. Contribute to the diversity within blackness, not a stereotype!
@bananabebop I totally agree. Being multi-ethnic, culture means everything. I look Black, but the title doesn't fit much into my life, outside of that context. I think people who feel like appearance is the only factor are the same ones who are content with the concept of boxing eachother in.
@IsisAmtiess Yep because there are some people whose backgrounds are 100% black, but appear to be a Caucasian. Does that makes them a white person? Of course not! They are still black. So the way you look does not always mean what you actually are. Then again, appearance is can be very deceiving.
@papikano Actually, she doesn't look so obviously Black- clearly mixed race, but the possibilities are broader from there. Mixed race doesn't always point directly to Black/White.
I just had an epiphany of sorts while watching your video. Not really an epiphany because I know this but... I guess its a way of articulating it so that it can be, finally, understood. When Black ppl tell you that "you are black and only black," I think what they're really saying is that "I, myself, am no different than a 'White' person. So just because you have a 'White' parent, doesn't make you different from me. So how can you say that YOU are not 'Black' if I can't say that I am not?"
Girl, don't let anyone else try to define you. You live in America. You are free. Don't let anyone else make you feel less than you. Most black women I know have a strong sense of self and guard it like a rare diamond. Hold your head up high, tilt your shoulders back and let your locks blow in the wind. When someone asks who you are say ,"I am a strong bi-racial woman". Be fearless. I see a beautiful black woman with white blood. Many black people have white blood, some more than others- Peace
Work Tiffany. Dont let anybody tell you what you are. It can also be hard when you LOOK mixed but the non white person was your grandparent. So I feel where you are coming from.
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Who Is black?
If the one drop or 1% rule holds true then the bulk of the world's population should be, genetically speaking. As far as the former slave nation, the USA (is it really - former - yet class based more so now?), is concerned the original African Diaspora had Africans from not just the West Coast of the African continent, but South and Eastern peoples. People of vastly different ethnicticities.
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The African American has been multi racial for centuries, once the Europeans started mixing the race at much greater levels than they have for centuries they started to separate the African American. Colored, Mulatto, etc.
You are always multi-racial and multi cultural when you are an American of mixed ethnicities. All Americans except maybe a rare few are multi cultural. We take different cultures and woven them into our own mainstream cultural tapestry.
I can be culturally Asian in America just by learning and living the culture in place that have it. Visit your international center of your nearest cities. They will have others who are not of that ethnic group that's being represented, say the Chinese as you are in China Town fro this example, yet they are Chinese is every sense other than physical appearance. Her in the USA you are given many opportunities to do these things. Consider yourself blessed.
And Tiff you are not wrong. You just weren't exposed to some things they had been exposed to. There are these type who really have problems with themselves yet project them onto you with their own race issues. Being called the white girl or high yellow is not what a child should be exposed to.
You are reading some interesting works and that can only help you in your journey for self. Do not make others ignorances your own by feeding into it. You should not cry or be hurt by not having knowledge. I good person would simply give you the knowledge you lack - human being to human being and nothing more or less.
You're a beautiful human being, a beautiful self, keep traveling on your personal journey to self, its a beautiful place to get to.
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IM Black and I dont know AMEN, YOU KNow Why? Im a fucking Muslim!
All blacks are not the same we dont need to all know amen or know how to sing the latest rap song. its a slap in the face, damned if you damned if you dont
I hate how in American if its not the 'white' way its not the right way.
Well, I am a mixed woman and I am very proud to be so.Of course I have had to deal with ignorance in my life but so has everyone. Any inferiority others may have tried to make me feel was a true waste of their time. Instead of feeling bad about who i am, I feel sorry for those ignorant people. They are the ones with the problem, not me.
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that why I always said Im glad im not biracial and have biracial children. it too much to deal with. because that is how america is. people need to think about what they are doing before they make a decision to have biracial children in this america.
Oh, I just want to give you a big hug and tell you that, you are beautiful and wonderful as a person. I love your videos, I'm so sorry that you had to go through black people treating you that way when you didn't know how to sing "Amen." I wish people would just show love and not expect that you already know the song. I don't even know of a Song called "Amen" lol. I'm mixed too, with Black and Indian, my dad is completely Indian and my mom is Black
People have tried to force me into that "acting black" box, but I pretty much rebelled. I have always had black friends, listened to black music, and embraced the black culture. However, I also love mexican food, and the Beach Boys, and it's all of those things put together that make me who I am. I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyone who has a problem with that really needs to get a life of their own.
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...that even though you're raised in a non-African American culture, that you have different customs, a different pattern of speech etc., you're somehow still supposed to fit the African-American stereotype. It doesn't make sense, but it's completely expected!
I have always lived in the suburbs and mostly white areas. but with out fail on the first day of class my Writing prof caricatured me as a 'oh no she didn't" finger snapping, neck rolling, "black bitch"... LOL all because I was having a passionate discussion with a class mate.
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Hi Tiffany. I understand your frustration about the unfairness of being expected to "act black". People ought to know that black people are diverse. I feel like first generation Americans of African descent have similar experiences as biracial kids. Especially those from the horn of Africa who often have typically "white" features (like keen facial features and a looser texture of hair) like my family where there's an added pressure to "prove" blackness. It's as if people don't understand...
I really see where your coming from I was raised in a "white neighborhood" (What is a white neighborhood exactly?) growing up and moved to a "black neighborhood" (same question as before)...and people gave me the "Why do you talk like a white person" Uh, what is that? That is the thing a person can't act "white" or act "black"
I pretty much love the antithesis quote and bc of it will eventually read this book. I'm very multiracial and at time wonder why when I say I'm proud of another part of my ancestry, to others, means I'm not proud to be black. Like it's a "You can't have you cake and eat it too" situation. Though my background isn't as black & white (pun intended haha) as others I very much understand where you and others are coming from.
white privilage comes at the exspense of everyone who isn't white, its an unearned privilage based on race and there is alot of power in that privliage and white people are going to easy let that go if at all, but white people are victims too and this country is never going to reach its full potential and will suffer until this ends
We are all one consciousness really; however, with our ignorant perceptions, formed without total infinite knowledge, we discriminate confidently. A person becomes programmed by what they experience every second of every day. The reactions to these experiences (the thought trails); they remain in the memory! This stock of experience is the Ego, and its perspectives are defended against any attack by thoughts that are alien to the particular Ego. Thoughts that challenge a persons limited nature.
Part II ...My blackness did not come about with "acting black" so it doesn't need qualification. You are open to learning, so you don't have to feel excluded. I don't know "Amen" either, don't have southern family, am not Baptist, and I've never attended a family reunion. But, you know what? This is the story of many black americans/non-americans. The "black" experience is so varied based on location/family history. Nothing about being black has to be automatic or "inside information".
Not to take away from your frustration, but there are many black people in the united states who are not hip to the black -american culture ( i.e. black africans, aboriginals ). I am one of them and have always been called on "acting white", because I don't "act black" by black american standards. I was most indignant b/c it was someone's phony idea of "blackness", and it was either adopt it or be thrown to the white community. Especially when I looked black, "How dare I act anything else."
I just wanted to say. Don't apologize for your hair!!!!! It's beautiful and crazy...straight and curly , unpredictable, unique and you!! Who are you apologizing to and what for? Yes it's poofy and maybe you don't like poofy, but it's beautiful and strong looking.I liked when you pulled it down with your hands. It looked more "tamed" but then again when you let it go, it looked just as beautiful wavy, crazy, and poofy as it did pulled down and tamed.
Thus they give us insight to issues "unaware", to issues needing further thought ,and to issues needing no further thought. One thing of the many things I have taken away with me from this video is that the one drop rule will not be a factor for our child. Bye for now...peace to your heart
Hi Tiffany! I look on you as a daughter, a young women who is learning who has become and who is becoming aware of issues that are real and have beome real in your life and in life in general. When I watch your videos, especially this one, I want to give you a hug and let you know you are in my prayers. My husband and I are a loving mixed couple. God willing we will have children. Your videos are informative. They give insight to one women's experience and feelings about being mixed.
dont cry....u look really hurt "some black ppl" are just so stupid! if u were raised around a white community and you dont understand slang then thats ok. you are who you are. how can they say your'e not black? you have the hair, the lips and a lot of other black features. And how can they say you're not white when if it wasnt 4 ur father, you'd never exist? pay ignorence no mind. They just wanna c you fall.
You make such a big deal about being biracial which shows that you most likely are not familiar with living in diversity. In order to "be yourself" I would advise maybe living or traveling to more diverse places. I am from dc and this metro area has COUNTLESS mixed ppl, so there is not any alienation and its not any more or less different from being of any other culture or race...
..and about the "one drop rule", its bs. People classify you and other black/white biracial ppl at 1st sight as 'black ' because you look like a 'black' person. Not to be condescending or anything, but a person may not know you are mixed until you converse and TELL them.
If they still refuse to acknowledge you are BOTH white and black, than that is THEIR IGNORANCE. &Please dont be mislead to beleive that all black ppl are the same [IDK what "amen" song u are talking about; and im black lol)
i agree. i think the reason why she has such a problem with it is because she makes such a big deal out of it. if youre mixed youre mixed.....its not a big deal. im mixed too but im not trying to identify with anything...im just me.
I hear where ur coming from. Im not biracial but my whole life ive been told "how are u black if u dont do this or eat that or listen to this type of music", ppl have always said "u talk white or ur turnin ur back on ur own race by dating outside of it " . Ppl are going to always attack something or someone that they see as being different... its sad but thats the world we live in. i just hope ppl learn to see beyond just black and white. Thank u for telling ur story.
people are ignorant and stupid ppl tell me that crap and both my rents are blk people are just ignorant and buy into what bet tell them they should be i live outside of the box
Hmmm ... well I personally never identify as just one race, I identify as white and black. But even if I only wanted to identify as black, alot of full black people in my school wouldn't let me. Even if I only say I'm half black they get offended and call me "yellow". Supposedly I'm too white looking to be black, but whatever I don't really care.
By the way I just heard your comment on how you were brought up and mostly influenced by white people. Would make sense for me to be greatly influenced by Asians? For thirteen years of my fifteen year old existence I lived in a dominantely Asian community ... so alot of the cultures grew on me naturally.
But yea, does that make sense? I've been thinking about it for a while. I feel sort of bad for not being culturally influenced by both my races, but being influenced by another.
Tiff, you struck many of the socio-economic elements which has lead to where things stand today. The race construct is the foundation of the socio-economic construct. It is class warfare plain and simple. Control comes through the politics of hate/division, fear and misinformation. Middle/lower class whites have been sold a bill of goods. What has happened to the American Dream? Once you realize that we are all actors, who play our roles as the uber-rich intend we do. con't
I will admit, I'm a player of the game, using the construct to further my means. As the saying goes, hate the game, not the player. I believe you're on the right track, destroy the race construct and the entire complex will crumble. Part of me has a vested interest that this does not happen. Maybe I am the blue eyed devil after all :)
come down sweety you are as black as you are white and what ever case you want to identify you are right other ignorant stupid people should go to hell
How one identifies is largely determined by their culture. People keep forgetting that there are variations in culture among people of African descent. Someone is only going to know "Amen" if they #1 grew up Christian and #2 grew up in a Christian denomination that sang gospel. Sure certain things are associated with one particular race over another, but it still comes down to culture. Your culture is Suburban Mid-Western American. You see things through that and not Black or White.
i'm not trying to sound mean but, get over yourself! damn, "biracial" tiffany; there's more to life than someone's ethnicity. sounds like you're pretty pleased with yourself.
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sorry, all i can see is a light skinned negress talking...lovely big lips, nose, nappy hair..you are delusional, my child...you are Black, African. Get used to it, or seek afrocentric theraphy.
i agree with everything you said! Interestingly, monoracial blacks have those same battles, those that come from multiple generations of black identied people...those inherit non sus sarahan ancestries, and multi-cultural and social influences in our family from the past do matter in how we are no matter how we identify.
Some of your experiences with you being labeled as black are very similar to people who culturally identify as black and are visibly identified as black. Biriacial people are not the only ones with these experiences.
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It seems that race in US is very dualistic. Everything is black or white. To non-American it feels totally. Not only becouse most americans have more than one race in their heritage. It just seems very unintelligent to divide things to black and white.
I think most biracial children in Europe or South-America are not thinking these things as much as you.
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Put it this way, they want her/us when it suits them, real black people are happy to except Obama now but I bet when he was poor and had nothing they in general would reject him just like the did me, hopefully nobody will get me wrong here I can understand it from black peoples perspective but this isn't just about what's best for black people only, it's about what's best for everyone and this is what needs to be understood more.
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If black people dont want you then stay with the white people. I think you are very beautiful.The facted your mixed makes you more exotic.Either way your pretty.
The sky is limit for you. Never be afraid of what you are a mulatto.God makes no mistakes.
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Keep your head up. I don't know what 'A-men' is either. And I'm as black as liquorish. And I don't believe in Jesus or going to church on Sunday. A lot black folks don't know anything else other than Christianity or to a lesser extent Islam. So stay true to yourself. Let the world catch up. We live in a society where you are as you're perceived. And defined by what you are perceived to be. Be yourself. You are truly beautiful and stunning.
I agree with what you say even though I'm not biracial. I am black as pepper and I'm African. I grew up in a white suburb and I played soccer. Soccer in America is a 'white sport.' Soccer in Africa is the number 1 sport. Africa is primarily black:) Then I was told I 'talk white''hung around too many whites' etc etc. But I am till this day myself. Because in America you are defined by race quite often. I feel where you are coming from. But for a biracial person like yourself it might be tougher.
you are so right. i knew about it, but didn't realize just how many "monoracial" black people go throught the exact same intra-racial hardships so to speak until I started doing these videos and a dialogue began.
why do people make a big deal about being biracial?This is nothing new mixing has been going on for thousands of years.How do you think arabs,indians and all these other races came about.They are mixed races.Most people are mixed .Some are just lighter then others.Hair textures are different.
White Southerners fought against the one-drop rule until the 20th century because it might tarnish old-wealth Southern gentry. They eventually accepted and incorporated it into the Jim Crow system of state-sponsored anti-Black terrorism.
chsn09 3 months ago
This law was then followed in hundreds of court cases without exception until U.S. slavery was ended by the 13th Amendment. The only identifiable U.S. group that consistently advocated the one-drop rule long before it was embraced nationwide, was the African-American ethnic community, first in the northeast, then in the south after Reconstruction.
chsn09 3 months ago
During slavery days, racial membership was the opposite of the one-drop rule. A person of any visible European ancestry was presumed to be free. The court cases Gobu v. Gobu, 1802 North Carolina, Hudgins v. Wrights, 1806 Virginia, and Adelle v. Beauregard, 1810 Louisiana established the U.S. caselaw that if you had any discernible European ancestry you were presumed free, and the burden was on the alleged slave owner to prove that you were legally a slave through matrilineal descent.
chsn09 3 months ago
In fact, the one-drop rule (that you are Black if you have any Black ancestor, no matter how distant) was a Jim Crow era phenomenon. It was first made law in 1910 Tennessee and spread nationwide over the next two decades.
chsn09 3 months ago
Race had NOTHING to do with slavery. It was based on matrilineal lineage. If your mother was a slave then you were a slave. The one drop rule did not come about until 1930. So one drop rule has NOTHING to do with slavery either.
chsn09 3 months ago
You know what I think? I think some black women are filled with self hate. And they WANT you to be able to identify with them because they can't choose.
Lovingirl80 4 months ago
Tiff, don't cry. The people out there will never know what it is like to be both. You are a good person, you are BEAUTIFUL. I love you I give you hugs.
Lovingirl80 4 months ago
Before I forget I wasn't really sorry for offending anybody. Llike I give two fucks what you clowns think I just said that so I don't get idiost writting back to me who propbably never seen the sun.
MsOla2011 6 months ago
Let me put it this way, to end people writting to me. I don't give a fuck about what "biracial dummie here" has to say anymore. Have a good life. Just don't tell people your black when it suits you and remember to say hello to your mum for me.
MsOla2011 6 months ago
I am sorry if I offended anybody else but I can't believe there are still racist people like this who just pretend. This video upset me a bit because black and and white people have gone through alot of crap to even have the right to get married and then you have pretentious idiots like this who really hate being black
MsOla2011 6 months ago
The reason I'm so angry is because I am in an relationship with someone white and I do not want I piece of dirt like her as my child. I would love my child to identify with both races but to discriminate agaist black people when your ass is even half black is distrurbing and sad . Did a black man rape you or something? There seems to be no reason for why this this loser is constantly talking about blacks in a bad way in all her videos.
MsOla2011 6 months ago
I hate bitches like you. You give biracial and black people a bad name. I will always love biracial people but I don't like YOU because you are nothing but a stupid little girl dreaming in La La Land thinknig that somehow that white people like you. They are making fun of you. Even I am laughing my skull off because your deaf and dumb. You finally blocked everbody that doesn't agree with you. You try to be racist so that you can suck up to them but they don't like you DUM DUM!
MsOla2011 6 months ago
To pretend your just black won't do it but to pretend your just white will. Let's put this in a nutshell, you are a racist! I kind of wish your mum never opened her legs to produce a demon like you.You are just disgracing your mother. Who is your dad anyway? Unless he created mankind then maybe your right for shoving yout head so far up a white mans ass but until I find out he is god you and your daddy can FUCK OFF and you can stop making your plea to the white race videos.
MsOla2011 6 months ago
@MsOla2011 ....And you wonder why we don't embrace being like you! lol :) ...Every black/white biracial person wasn't raised in the African American community. You don't have to like her, but if you tried to actually listen to what she's saying then maybe you could try to be understanding, but you refuse to see what she's saying because all you know is that you're black and that's it. Walk in her shoes & then you can criticize..But you can't....You're "Just Black" remember?!
exotiq88 6 months ago
@exotiq88 what are you taking about you dummie. It's not about embracing being like me it's embracing who she is. She is half black and half white, that means she is also half black (just for those who are a bit slow). She doesn't have to be raised in the black community to be treat people of all cultures with resepect but she is a racist . I bet you any money if she had a magic wand to make herself white she would.
MsOla2011 6 months ago
@MsOla2011 She is saying that white people are also victims of poverty and injustice but are brain washed into thinking because they are white it doesn't apply to them.
Lovingirl80 4 months ago
@MsOla2011 You sound like a bitter ethnocentric one droppist racist POS! SMH at your IGNORANCE!
chsn09 3 months ago
OMG! Everything you said is how I feel exactly! This is why I stay affirmed to being and remaining in the middle--I'm mixed--I'm not exclusively black nor white and I refuse to be bullied into choosing a side just to satisfy another's agenda. I am who I am--People need to accept it! Actually, the only people that ever gave me grief over it were blacks for some reason, most whites & other non-whites have the common sense to accept that fact and move on.
exotiq88 6 months ago
my white side is just as equal as my black side because i am 50/50. so explain to me how i have to be black. i can just easily say i'm white using that rule. so don't tell me i am black. i'm mixed and proud of it. us mixed people are our own, not one or the other so society can not "put us in our place" and tell us who we are.
1jodif 6 months ago
I have passed for Black my entire life but I'm not sure if I want to continue.
auctionguy5 6 months ago
this hair suits you...
CushiticSomalianMale 8 months ago
i think this is the video that hits the your core purpose and motivations for this series...theres more to be said but thats pretty much the long and short of it
GinGeeK 8 months ago
this is so stupid. if you're biracial and if this is an issue for you then you are NOT black - period! what does it mean to be both black and white, do you follow yourself when you're in the clothing store. bottomline, if you don't want to be apart of the black community it's ok. you are what you are.
Chas0x01 9 months ago
People tell me that I am not black because I've never seen Comming To America.....and cetain other movies.
SakuraLovesSasuke69 9 months ago
Btw, I know the "Amen" song. Learned it years ago, but just b/c someone else doesn't know it means they aren't being black, or black enough. That is plain nonsense.
snoops71 1 year ago
For years, I called myself black only, although I am mixed with indian, irish, and dominican as well. I look like Nicole Richie, mixed with Lisa Bonet.
Now that I am older, I embrace every ethnicity I am mixed with, proudly. All of them make up who I am. I don't eliminate any, or put just one on a pedastal.
snoops71 1 year ago
I just recently discovered that I have more white and Indian in me than black, thus making me a mulatto,
For the most part I am not light skinned, I look black.
I often get teased while going into my senior year in high school that I don't act or talk black and that I act stuck up, I'm really troubled and confused on what a black person should act like.
On tests I mark I am African American because visibly I look it but mentally and socially(according to people of all race I am not.
I love wh
yana71310 1 year ago
@yana71310 Mulatto is a term designated to those who are Black/White mixed and have one parent of each race. I identify as multi-ethnic (AA, English, French, Irish), even though my background is 50/50 Black & White, technically I am not bi-racial or mulatto.
IsisAmtiess 11 months ago
Black/ White who cares.......inner beauty is what matters. I say this because we all know that there is inner beauty and ugliness in every race. Stereotypes can cause us pain no matter what race you are. To clump individuals into a category based on looks is just ignorant. Understanding this ignorance can set us all free. BTW, I’m as black as they come. What the heck are troops?
sevenis2001 1 year ago
Ive never woke up and thought about it a day n my life. My parents are both black. Theyve never thought about it a day in their life. neyways point is this. I watched this WHOLE post hoping u'd share what "Amen" was&shed light on this "troop" thing..cause im black &dont have a clue as to what you're talking about.that is aside from F*cked up sterotypes ppl will try&put on u. mixed or not ppl want blacks u to make them feel comfortable with your skinton ...lol now thats something I can relate to
nynybey 1 year ago
OMG...You really are a TRAGIC MULATTO
90Ptown 1 year ago
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90Ptown 1 year ago
There was a poll done while OBAMA was running for office and it stated that the #1 reason WHITE americans aged 18-25 voted for OBAMA was b/c....HE WAS BLACK..they wanted the progress and change just as much as blacks....plz..get over yourself
90Ptown 1 year ago
WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING IN!!!??? You are feeding right into all of what society subjects us ( mulattoes ) to. You are a grown women now, you don't have to define what you are anymore, I understand why 100% black people get upset with you. It's okay to be simply...TIFFANY. You are behind times, black and white kids today feel as if they have equal opportunities, they dont see race like your generation did.
90Ptown 1 year ago
Most "black" Americans (about 60%) are mixed with white and/or Native American and on the same note, many "white" Americans (as many as 30%) are mixed with black and/or Native American, so in actuality there are more multiracial Americans out there than most of us are led to believe. Besides, the "one drop rule" crap is entirely outdated anyway. People in the 1800's might have taken it to heart, but times have greatly changed since then.
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Tiffany, from the perspective of 99% of white people you are nothing other than black. Oh well, get used to it.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
Omg you are TOO damn dramatic. Calm the fuck down and just be biracial. I'm black and I have had the same damn problems with people saying I "talk white" or "how have you not seen this movie and your black?" My friend says shit like black people don't do this and black people don't say this whenever i don't conform to what HE thinks is black. Be happy to be half Afro & Euro.
p.s. If one of your parents is African American you probably have more white ancestry.
GGLebo23 1 year ago
@GGLebo23 There is NOWHERE on the planet where anyone one whom looks like they have some black ancestry in them functions as a non-white person non black person fro the perspective of people classified as white. Some confused non-white people like yourself may consider them as something other than non-white black people, but white people do not anywhere on the planet consider any person with black ancestry as a non-white non-black person.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
@MrPeaceandhealth How many countries have you been to? Do you study how people look at race in other countries besides America? The one-drop rule is an American invention. Whites & Asians don't consider their mixes to be apart of their race. Arabs & Pacific Islanders wouldn't consider their mix to be apart of their race. Their is nothing special about us black folks. This girl DOES NOT LOOK BLACK. She looks mixed. Who even gives a fuck what whites think? Why do we bend to their racial system?
GGLebo23 1 year ago
Racism is a construct of white supremacists racist, for the purpose of mistreating persons based on race, evidence shows this, racists have created the labels you are 'stressing' over, and rather than focus on the dynamic that rewards the problem, you argue about the problem as if you are oblvious that it is your fathers contribution and your inheritance. I personally could care less what you call your self, in truth you are a pathetic monstrosity, unconsious it seems victim or white supremacy
Diali55 1 year ago
There is no where you can go on the planet Tiffany, where you will not be considered a non-white person by the white collective from a political function. It sucks that there is a global system of white supremacy, but there is one. In other words, to most whites you are just black.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
@MrPeaceandhealth That's not true. Only in the U.S. do we have the one-drop rule. In the U.K. she's mixed race. Cuba, mulatto. Jamaica, brown.
GGLebo23 1 year ago
@GGLebo23 No offense but you are confused about reality. A mixed race person in Cuba, Jamaica, and the UK *functions* in that those sociteties as a non-white person. In other words, they white people do not treat them as if they are white. SO yes, although on paper different countries may have different terms for bi-racial or mixed race people, they still function as non-white black people.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
@MrPeaceandhealth So if someone treats you as a NIGGER(blk), than you should call yourself a NIGGER(blk). Is that what you think you are? A nigger? Fuck what they think. Non-white does NOT equal black. I don't know how what you think of yourself, but myself worth is not based on some racist white fucks. She wont be treated as white bc she is not white. She is not blk either, so stop trying to claim her w/ your INFERIORITY complex.
GGLebo23 1 year ago
But with regard to what team you play on whether you like it or not, from a political perspective you play on the non-white team. This is not because blacks decided it. At present, only the white collective has the power to decide and that is what they have decided.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
I do not mean to be gruff, but honestly you have work towards getting over it. People will always find fault with some aspect of how a person is no matter how a person (not even counting race), but you need to grow and get over it and be you and happy with how you are in terms of your speech patterns, cultural habits etc. Where you ever taught sticks and stones.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
2 And btw, there is nothing wrong with a black person whom “acts more like what many would say white people, or a white person whom acts more like what many people would say is most black people” You act naturally like what you are brought up around.
MrPeaceandhealth 1 year ago
Tiffany you are mixing up culture and the social construct of what team you play on based on the color of your skin. And while they can overlap, they are not the same thing. Tiffany, you are not special or rare or out of the ordinary in the USA because you have many so-called white cultural habits. Big deal. One does not have to be bi-racial for that to be the case. Blacks come in all different types of cultural, economic, and speech patterns. Why stereotype black people.
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Hey, tiff! I heard something on more than one occasion you mentioned here in this vid: you said you didn't know what "troops" are. Well, neither do I and all of my reference points are in the black community. I don't feel bad at all about it. Although I do know how AMEN goes(I sang in church a lot as a kid and a young adult) I am not necessarily an avid sports fan. And as a result, I get rebbed about it by white and black(in the worst way sometimes) people (mostly men) just the same.
slimdudeDJC 1 year ago
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@slimdudeDJC BTW, I know I'm really late with this response but I just had to say something. Much love to ya for having the cojones to speak on such subjects. Love and Peace! ;0) P.S. .Dont live your life according to some clown's definition aka one drop rule. That you could drop in the big white bowl next to the other crap! :D
slimdudeDJC 1 year ago
BTW Tiff, who is "Wise Nubian?" I did check out Tim Wise's vid and it was interesting, even realizing some of the things in the vid I was familiar with. I've tried to keep up with the "diaries' " interviews. I've seen many but not all. Those I've seen were nice! Many of the women you talked to were really informed and educated on this subject, whether from the classroom or from experience. Look forward to seeing more. Cheerz, lovely!!!
woodie62 1 year ago
I really would love to hear something musical from you. I get a glimpse of your ability at 9:23 and now I have to hear something, anything. . . .and you don't have to do AMEN, either. You could do BABY, BABY if you want to. . or the female part to Next Time I Fall In Love (love that tune-Amy pairs with Peter Citera). Or anything your heart desires!♥ Pleeeeeazzzzzz??!! ;)
woodie62 1 year ago
hey tiffany, true beauty comes from within, regardless of race or nationality. white, black, yellow, red, green.....who cares. You are a beautiful woman, and you definately got it going on. koko.
ubeeze 1 year ago
humm. I don't amen. I'm black.
bigdiana2012 1 year ago
americans whites and american blacks truly share the same national culture, and regional culture
rhibac 1 year ago
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We as a people, can change things. We don't have to live/accept or subscribe to someone's concepts anymore! The one drop rule is BS.
Papillonmuscogee 1 year ago
You make valid points. Why should you be made to choose one culture over the other? It's like asking you to embrace parent and deny the other parent.
BTW, I'm black and I don't know wtf "Amen" is either...
Sk8erGirl858 2 years ago
race and culture are not the same
rhibac 1 year ago
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I agree, but they often times go hand in hand. A white person in America usually does not have the same experiences as a Black person due to parenting, or community, or the impact of racism or institutional policies...Experience and race do impact culture.
Sk8erGirl858 1 year ago
pain sadness pverty an injustice all makes us stronger bye overcomig that hardship thats what makes us as humas better we learn from it an grow if we never had that we wouldnt get nowere wed be naive its not whether your balack or white or wher u come from but its what u do i life bad or good your still going to effect others an like i siad what doesnt kill us whil only make us stronger
zbug9 2 years ago
no such thing as mixed people
zipporah144 2 years ago
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your nationality is determined by your father. it say so in the bible.
zipporah144 2 years ago
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I think your confusing race with nationality.
yak6ex 1 year ago
originally there were no races. just always nationalities. Europeans gave us the term black. that is why it should not be used it is offensive.
zipporah144 1 year ago
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blacks in this country use that term black because they do not know that they are the israelities in the bible. they do not know their true nationality according to the bible.
zipporah144 1 year ago
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I don't get my info from the bible.
yak6ex 1 year ago
I think it is not important to fit into any category. Just be Tiffany. It is ok to recognize racial differences, so long as no one is hating the other for them. Don't let anyone put you in a box, and never try to fit in one yourself.
If someone tried to rip your identity away from you, what is their approval worth anyway? Nothing. They are just jelous people trying to bring a pretty girl down because she has pretty Mocha skin.
meathead320 2 years ago 2
get off on that corny topic. stop being hypocrites. no one owes you nothing.
african kings sold their own ppl to slavery.
the euro keeps that in the dl for power.
as for yourself calling yourself blk is uneducated and for me calling myself latino is uneducated. i'm putting my afircan and taino (indian) sides down.
that why i like the term "puerto rican"
and for the natives from pr "Boriqua"
is what the native "taino" indian named puerto rico. then the slavery came tainos and africans
xbox360hackingsource 2 years ago
what makes one black is the color of your skin, your thought process, your bone features, and your body. you cant think as a person and a monkey at the same time. haha your not wanted anywhere!!! we dont what you and niggers dont what you!!!!!!
mofoeatmy556 2 years ago
if you look at the original constitution, nonwhites were only 3/5th a citizen. negros were not people back then. put the constitution in its time period. its not white!!! its ZOG controlled media and industry!!! if you were a millionare, would you give up your millions to some crack niggers? the blackies now are contolling with the jews. you get minority scholorships, a free pass from hate crimes, and free speech when we dont!
mofoeatmy556 2 years ago
I think you assume your reference points have to do with being biracial, but it's really about culture. I grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood and lord knows i don't know the words to Amen either. I think to a certain extent, you're overthinking this.
jaedalaurez 2 years ago
I feel u :'(
BumbleMissy 2 years ago
*sigh* Girl, you and I BOTH would've been deer in headlights on the "How Can You Be Black and Not Know The Amen Song?!"...and i'm black.lol and I didn't know what troops were til I read a comment on here explaining what it is...lol...Love you girl and know that YOU are the only one who can identify as whatever YOU want!! and by the way if you were to ever come around my fam bamthen you would fit right on in, we don't care about skin color b/c we range from every shade of black/brown there is!!:)
BabyGurlz16S 2 years ago 2
black people skin complexions are various browns not black
a hershey bar is not black its chocolate brown
rhibac 2 years ago
yes i know that which is why i said brown!
BabyGurlz16S 2 years ago
you haven seen many black people huh? come to my town we're so black we're almost blue hahaha it's true
miwanpela 1 year ago
I feel for you, but beeing bicultural myself (White-Arabian) and beeing born in one remote village in prolly the whitest country in the World (Switzerland), I am quite amazed to see how Americans are caring so much about their genetical heritage. I have never had so much problems with it. I think that US are maybe too "racially aware", or I prolly missed something...
Anyway, moving video from a beautiful woman.
cafeducommerce 2 years ago 7
i thought being arabic had nothing to do with race
bi cultural and bi racil are 2 different things
bi cultural could be swiss culture and lets say jordanian culture(or cultures within that)
rhibac 2 years ago
being white doesn't mean much more than looking white. you can be any religion, talk any way. If you look white, you are white even if you listen to hip hop and reggae, and have locs. Tiffany, You don't have to pretend to be black. In the US context you look black so therefore you are black. It's not about language, looks, music, accent, culture... it's just about how you look and therefore are perceived. Contribute to the diversity within blackness, not a stereotype!
papikano 2 years ago 4
@papikano Actually background counts. You may look white but actually be black, or be white and look black. Its about GENETICS. Your wrong.
bananabebop 11 months ago
@bananabebop I totally agree. Being multi-ethnic, culture means everything. I look Black, but the title doesn't fit much into my life, outside of that context. I think people who feel like appearance is the only factor are the same ones who are content with the concept of boxing eachother in.
IsisAmtiess 11 months ago
@IsisAmtiess Yep because there are some people whose backgrounds are 100% black, but appear to be a Caucasian. Does that makes them a white person? Of course not! They are still black. So the way you look does not always mean what you actually are. Then again, appearance is can be very deceiving.
bananabebop 11 months ago
@bananabebop Race has NOTHING to do with genetics, biology, or science. It is ALL a social construct.
chsn09 3 months ago
@chsn09 Sure enough.
bananabebop 3 months ago
@papikano Actually, she doesn't look so obviously Black- clearly mixed race, but the possibilities are broader from there. Mixed race doesn't always point directly to Black/White.
IsisAmtiess 11 months ago 2
I just had an epiphany of sorts while watching your video. Not really an epiphany because I know this but... I guess its a way of articulating it so that it can be, finally, understood. When Black ppl tell you that "you are black and only black," I think what they're really saying is that "I, myself, am no different than a 'White' person. So just because you have a 'White' parent, doesn't make you different from me. So how can you say that YOU are not 'Black' if I can't say that I am not?"
TheEclipse27 2 years ago 2
Girl, don't let anyone else try to define you. You live in America. You are free. Don't let anyone else make you feel less than you. Most black women I know have a strong sense of self and guard it like a rare diamond. Hold your head up high, tilt your shoulders back and let your locks blow in the wind. When someone asks who you are say ,"I am a strong bi-racial woman". Be fearless. I see a beautiful black woman with white blood. Many black people have white blood, some more than others- Peace
AuthorTanya 2 years ago 12
Race is Obsolete!! There r good and bad individuals in every race??
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julieluvpink 2 years ago
Work Tiffany. Dont let anybody tell you what you are. It can also be hard when you LOOK mixed but the non white person was your grandparent. So I feel where you are coming from.
blakmajesty 2 years ago
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Who Is black?
If the one drop or 1% rule holds true then the bulk of the world's population should be, genetically speaking. As far as the former slave nation, the USA (is it really - former - yet class based more so now?), is concerned the original African Diaspora had Africans from not just the West Coast of the African continent, but South and Eastern peoples. People of vastly different ethnicticities.
tracy1mil 2 years ago
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The African American has been multi racial for centuries, once the Europeans started mixing the race at much greater levels than they have for centuries they started to separate the African American. Colored, Mulatto, etc.
You are always multi-racial and multi cultural when you are an American of mixed ethnicities. All Americans except maybe a rare few are multi cultural. We take different cultures and woven them into our own mainstream cultural tapestry.
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tracy1mil 2 years ago
I can be culturally Asian in America just by learning and living the culture in place that have it. Visit your international center of your nearest cities. They will have others who are not of that ethnic group that's being represented, say the Chinese as you are in China Town fro this example, yet they are Chinese is every sense other than physical appearance. Her in the USA you are given many opportunities to do these things. Consider yourself blessed.
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tracy1mil 2 years ago 2
And Tiff you are not wrong. You just weren't exposed to some things they had been exposed to. There are these type who really have problems with themselves yet project them onto you with their own race issues. Being called the white girl or high yellow is not what a child should be exposed to.
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tracy1mil 2 years ago
You are reading some interesting works and that can only help you in your journey for self. Do not make others ignorances your own by feeding into it. You should not cry or be hurt by not having knowledge. I good person would simply give you the knowledge you lack - human being to human being and nothing more or less.
You're a beautiful human being, a beautiful self, keep traveling on your personal journey to self, its a beautiful place to get to.
Take care.
tracy1mil 2 years ago
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IM Black and I dont know AMEN, YOU KNow Why? Im a fucking Muslim!
All blacks are not the same we dont need to all know amen or know how to sing the latest rap song. its a slap in the face, damned if you damned if you dont
I hate how in American if its not the 'white' way its not the right way.
Unekwu89 2 years ago
Well, I am a mixed woman and I am very proud to be so.Of course I have had to deal with ignorance in my life but so has everyone. Any inferiority others may have tried to make me feel was a true waste of their time. Instead of feeling bad about who i am, I feel sorry for those ignorant people. They are the ones with the problem, not me.
bellasong75 2 years ago 3
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that why I always said Im glad im not biracial and have biracial children. it too much to deal with. because that is how america is. people need to think about what they are doing before they make a decision to have biracial children in this america.
browngirl1986 2 years ago
ha ha your bi
chucktaylor974 2 years ago
That was wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
ToyaTiyV 2 years ago
Oh, I just want to give you a big hug and tell you that, you are beautiful and wonderful as a person. I love your videos, I'm so sorry that you had to go through black people treating you that way when you didn't know how to sing "Amen." I wish people would just show love and not expect that you already know the song. I don't even know of a Song called "Amen" lol. I'm mixed too, with Black and Indian, my dad is completely Indian and my mom is Black
QueenLoreal 2 years ago
People have tried to force me into that "acting black" box, but I pretty much rebelled. I have always had black friends, listened to black music, and embraced the black culture. However, I also love mexican food, and the Beach Boys, and it's all of those things put together that make me who I am. I wouldn't have it any other way. Anyone who has a problem with that really needs to get a life of their own.
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orangemoon1 2 years ago
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...that even though you're raised in a non-African American culture, that you have different customs, a different pattern of speech etc., you're somehow still supposed to fit the African-American stereotype. It doesn't make sense, but it's completely expected!
orangemoon1 2 years ago
exactly and it is weird.
I have always lived in the suburbs and mostly white areas. but with out fail on the first day of class my Writing prof caricatured me as a 'oh no she didn't" finger snapping, neck rolling, "black bitch"... LOL all because I was having a passionate discussion with a class mate.
LOL @ the world
Unekwu89 2 years ago
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Hi Tiffany. I understand your frustration about the unfairness of being expected to "act black". People ought to know that black people are diverse. I feel like first generation Americans of African descent have similar experiences as biracial kids. Especially those from the horn of Africa who often have typically "white" features (like keen facial features and a looser texture of hair) like my family where there's an added pressure to "prove" blackness. It's as if people don't understand...
orangemoon1 2 years ago
I really see where your coming from I was raised in a "white neighborhood" (What is a white neighborhood exactly?) growing up and moved to a "black neighborhood" (same question as before)...and people gave me the "Why do you talk like a white person" Uh, what is that? That is the thing a person can't act "white" or act "black"
Dahamu 2 years ago
I pretty much love the antithesis quote and bc of it will eventually read this book. I'm very multiracial and at time wonder why when I say I'm proud of another part of my ancestry, to others, means I'm not proud to be black. Like it's a "You can't have you cake and eat it too" situation. Though my background isn't as black & white (pun intended haha) as others I very much understand where you and others are coming from.
Pamm7891 2 years ago
humanity is really retarded...the world is black and white..and we have coloured TV since the 70's!!
NamonShir 2 years ago
white privilage comes at the exspense of everyone who isn't white, its an unearned privilage based on race and there is alot of power in that privliage and white people are going to easy let that go if at all, but white people are victims too and this country is never going to reach its full potential and will suffer until this ends
Piratejenny25 2 years ago 2
We are all one consciousness really; however, with our ignorant perceptions, formed without total infinite knowledge, we discriminate confidently. A person becomes programmed by what they experience every second of every day. The reactions to these experiences (the thought trails); they remain in the memory! This stock of experience is the Ego, and its perspectives are defended against any attack by thoughts that are alien to the particular Ego. Thoughts that challenge a persons limited nature.
dougmarkham 2 years ago
Part II ...My blackness did not come about with "acting black" so it doesn't need qualification. You are open to learning, so you don't have to feel excluded. I don't know "Amen" either, don't have southern family, am not Baptist, and I've never attended a family reunion. But, you know what? This is the story of many black americans/non-americans. The "black" experience is so varied based on location/family history. Nothing about being black has to be automatic or "inside information".
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Not to take away from your frustration, but there are many black people in the united states who are not hip to the black -american culture ( i.e. black africans, aboriginals ). I am one of them and have always been called on "acting white", because I don't "act black" by black american standards. I was most indignant b/c it was someone's phony idea of "blackness", and it was either adopt it or be thrown to the white community. Especially when I looked black, "How dare I act anything else."
umkish 2 years ago
You are who you are embrace it. Your heart is what counts. We see that. Take care!!
tubetop70 2 years ago
Hi Tiffany!
I just wanted to say. Don't apologize for your hair!!!!! It's beautiful and crazy...straight and curly , unpredictable, unique and you!! Who are you apologizing to and what for? Yes it's poofy and maybe you don't like poofy, but it's beautiful and strong looking.I liked when you pulled it down with your hands. It looked more "tamed" but then again when you let it go, it looked just as beautiful wavy, crazy, and poofy as it did pulled down and tamed.
tubetop70 2 years ago
Thus they give us insight to issues "unaware", to issues needing further thought ,and to issues needing no further thought. One thing of the many things I have taken away with me from this video is that the one drop rule will not be a factor for our child. Bye for now...peace to your heart
tubetop70 2 years ago
Hi Tiffany! I look on you as a daughter, a young women who is learning who has become and who is becoming aware of issues that are real and have beome real in your life and in life in general. When I watch your videos, especially this one, I want to give you a hug and let you know you are in my prayers. My husband and I are a loving mixed couple. God willing we will have children. Your videos are informative. They give insight to one women's experience and feelings about being mixed.
tubetop70 2 years ago
3:30 - 3:34
TABULOUS1 2 years ago
Just be you and dont based you thoughts of all black ppl on an the ignorant ones.
sewingstardom90 2 years ago
dont cry....u look really hurt "some black ppl" are just so stupid! if u were raised around a white community and you dont understand slang then thats ok. you are who you are. how can they say your'e not black? you have the hair, the lips and a lot of other black features. And how can they say you're not white when if it wasnt 4 ur father, you'd never exist? pay ignorence no mind. They just wanna c you fall.
desiredwish16 2 years ago 5
You make such a big deal about being biracial which shows that you most likely are not familiar with living in diversity. In order to "be yourself" I would advise maybe living or traveling to more diverse places. I am from dc and this metro area has COUNTLESS mixed ppl, so there is not any alienation and its not any more or less different from being of any other culture or race...
747443 2 years ago 6
..and about the "one drop rule", its bs. People classify you and other black/white biracial ppl at 1st sight as 'black ' because you look like a 'black' person. Not to be condescending or anything, but a person may not know you are mixed until you converse and TELL them.
If they still refuse to acknowledge you are BOTH white and black, than that is THEIR IGNORANCE. &Please dont be mislead to beleive that all black ppl are the same [IDK what "amen" song u are talking about; and im black lol)
747443 2 years ago 17
i agree. i think the reason why she has such a problem with it is because she makes such a big deal out of it. if youre mixed youre mixed.....its not a big deal. im mixed too but im not trying to identify with anything...im just me.
nylonsweet 2 years ago
Alright I had to subscribe after watching this. Good analysis.
dealmaker007 3 years ago
I hear where ur coming from. Im not biracial but my whole life ive been told "how are u black if u dont do this or eat that or listen to this type of music", ppl have always said "u talk white or ur turnin ur back on ur own race by dating outside of it " . Ppl are going to always attack something or someone that they see as being different... its sad but thats the world we live in. i just hope ppl learn to see beyond just black and white. Thank u for telling ur story.
vilelet 3 years ago 9
people are ignorant and stupid ppl tell me that crap and both my rents are blk people are just ignorant and buy into what bet tell them they should be i live outside of the box
TwinkletOes24 2 years ago
Hmmm ... well I personally never identify as just one race, I identify as white and black. But even if I only wanted to identify as black, alot of full black people in my school wouldn't let me. Even if I only say I'm half black they get offended and call me "yellow". Supposedly I'm too white looking to be black, but whatever I don't really care.
heylie13 3 years ago
By the way I just heard your comment on how you were brought up and mostly influenced by white people. Would make sense for me to be greatly influenced by Asians? For thirteen years of my fifteen year old existence I lived in a dominantely Asian community ... so alot of the cultures grew on me naturally.
But yea, does that make sense? I've been thinking about it for a while. I feel sort of bad for not being culturally influenced by both my races, but being influenced by another.
heylie13 3 years ago
Tiff, you struck many of the socio-economic elements which has lead to where things stand today. The race construct is the foundation of the socio-economic construct. It is class warfare plain and simple. Control comes through the politics of hate/division, fear and misinformation. Middle/lower class whites have been sold a bill of goods. What has happened to the American Dream? Once you realize that we are all actors, who play our roles as the uber-rich intend we do. con't
army2k08 3 years ago 2
I will admit, I'm a player of the game, using the construct to further my means. As the saying goes, hate the game, not the player. I believe you're on the right track, destroy the race construct and the entire complex will crumble. Part of me has a vested interest that this does not happen. Maybe I am the blue eyed devil after all :)
army2k08 3 years ago
you look like my cousin OMG. :-) ... i got nothing to add just want to say 'hi'
glamazini 3 years ago
'hi' :-D
tiffdjones 3 years ago
you remind me of a young angela davis, kind of...
dieudonneMC 3 years ago
come down sweety you are as black as you are white and what ever case you want to identify you are right other ignorant stupid people should go to hell
kichaawetu 3 years ago
How one identifies is largely determined by their culture. People keep forgetting that there are variations in culture among people of African descent. Someone is only going to know "Amen" if they #1 grew up Christian and #2 grew up in a Christian denomination that sang gospel. Sure certain things are associated with one particular race over another, but it still comes down to culture. Your culture is Suburban Mid-Western American. You see things through that and not Black or White.
mom2dave 3 years ago 2
hi! great point! i never thought of it that way.
tiffdjones 3 years ago
i'm not trying to sound mean but, get over yourself! damn, "biracial" tiffany; there's more to life than someone's ethnicity. sounds like you're pretty pleased with yourself.
baygrl518 3 years ago
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sorry, all i can see is a light skinned negress talking...lovely big lips, nose, nappy hair..you are delusional, my child...you are Black, African. Get used to it, or seek afrocentric theraphy.
Ramiiesback 3 years ago
Is it just me, or does she look like Alanis Morrissette?
coccinelle80 3 years ago
i agree with everything you said! Interestingly, monoracial blacks have those same battles, those that come from multiple generations of black identied people...those inherit non sus sarahan ancestries, and multi-cultural and social influences in our family from the past do matter in how we are no matter how we identify.
spw83 3 years ago
i have come to understand that more and more on this mulatto diaries journey :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
I love this video. I completely agree with you. Thxs 4 posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
revinod 3 years ago
thanks for watching :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
what is "Amen?" I'm black,BTW :)
blackcherryblitz 3 years ago
Some of your experiences with you being labeled as black are very similar to people who culturally identify as black and are visibly identified as black. Biriacial people are not the only ones with these experiences.
supernovaofthenoir 3 years ago
you are right :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
wow, ok, your black and your white, do you.
tetatina 3 years ago
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It seems that race in US is very dualistic. Everything is black or white. To non-American it feels totally. Not only becouse most americans have more than one race in their heritage. It just seems very unintelligent to divide things to black and white.
I think most biracial children in Europe or South-America are not thinking these things as much as you.
astmapiippu 3 years ago
i think you're probably right :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
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Put it this way, they want her/us when it suits them, real black people are happy to except Obama now but I bet when he was poor and had nothing they in general would reject him just like the did me, hopefully nobody will get me wrong here I can understand it from black peoples perspective but this isn't just about what's best for black people only, it's about what's best for everyone and this is what needs to be understood more.
proff180 3 years ago
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If black people dont want you then stay with the white people. I think you are very beautiful.The facted your mixed makes you more exotic.Either way your pretty.
The sky is limit for you. Never be afraid of what you are a mulatto.God makes no mistakes.
All the best,
Dan
topflightprogram 3 years ago
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Keep your head up. I don't know what 'A-men' is either. And I'm as black as liquorish. And I don't believe in Jesus or going to church on Sunday. A lot black folks don't know anything else other than Christianity or to a lesser extent Islam. So stay true to yourself. Let the world catch up. We live in a society where you are as you're perceived. And defined by what you are perceived to be. Be yourself. You are truly beautiful and stunning.
ateamga 3 years ago
thank you so much!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
I agree with what you say even though I'm not biracial. I am black as pepper and I'm African. I grew up in a white suburb and I played soccer. Soccer in America is a 'white sport.' Soccer in Africa is the number 1 sport. Africa is primarily black:) Then I was told I 'talk white''hung around too many whites' etc etc. But I am till this day myself. Because in America you are defined by race quite often. I feel where you are coming from. But for a biracial person like yourself it might be tougher.
ateamga 3 years ago
it might be tougher, but who's to say? it's all relative. thanks so much for sharing!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
dont feel bad i dont know what "troops" are either and im black.
Koia007 3 years ago
Humans originated in Africa. I identify with White People, the most because they tend to be Orderly. Brown People are the Future:}
archimspart 3 years ago
their 'order' is merely a cage.
Blake4014 3 years ago 5
Many people have to deal with the acting white accusation e.g. videos on subject by SPRiDEX3, & tokenblackchic.
In my experience, it is usually by a person who is trying to get over on you in some way; who otherwise could care less about anything "black."
afro747 3 years ago
you are so right. i knew about it, but didn't realize just how many "monoracial" black people go throught the exact same intra-racial hardships so to speak until I started doing these videos and a dialogue began.
tiffdjones 3 years ago
alright !!!
afro747 2 years ago
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This goes to the problem of using a color as an ethnic identifier. Do you have to be "brown" to be Hispanic, Arab or Filipino ?
My mother had light yellowish skin. I have deep brown skin. We both id as "black" but know we are not "purely" so racially.
If you want to id as bi-racial, go for it. I'm more worried about the people who get unusually upset about that. I suspect envy is a motive there.
afro747 3 years ago
why do people make a big deal about being biracial?This is nothing new mixing has been going on for thousands of years.How do you think arabs,indians and all these other races came about.They are mixed races.Most people are mixed .Some are just lighter then others.Hair textures are different.
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